Sound Off: Dec. 31

POLITICS — The state of New Mexico has been a mockery and a disgrace since the 1940s. Thanks to mostly Democrats.

UTILITY — This is the second time this year that El Paso Electric has an outage that lasted more than five hours. It is the 27th, a Sunday, and it is freezing cold in my house because my electricity has been off for over eight hours. I have called three times.

UTILITY — Due to the recent snow storm, we had broken lines hanging over and improper power lines close to our house and around our house. Have you ever tried the emergency phone number to El Paso Electric? You get no response, just recordings. We have been trying for over eight hours to reach them.

KUDOS — I have two thank yous to report this morning. One is to the wonderful, charming staff at Village Inn on Telshor who made Christmas Day so lovely for me and my mom. They worked hard and they were cheerful, thank you. The other goes to our newspaper carrier who brought the newspaper up here to Telshor area in all this snow.

GOVERNOR'S PARTY — Whether or not Susana Martinez was drunk is not the issue. She exposed her true colors, a bully.

MESILLA — Chris Alexander should be the mayor of Mesilla.

KUDOS — It's Sunday morning at 9:15, and with all the snow I have a Sunday paper. Thank you Dave, for your efforts.

POLITICS — How about we have these self-appointed guiding lights of society like Common Cause start paying for their own half-baked ideas, like taxpayer funding and convoluted rules for election campaigns. The common scene in their proposals is always what other people should do and how other people's money should be spent.

IMMIGRATION — As a U.S. citizen, I'm opposed to the government bringing in so many refugees from Syria, etc., while they're complaining about a couple thousand people from Latin American countries. Why is there a discrimination of not allowing Latinos in and they're bringing some people who might be terrorists into this country?

IMMIGRATION — I cannot understand why Cubans are allowed to stay in this country as long as they step on American soil, even if they are felons. Is it because they are looking for asylum and they're from a communist country? There are a lot of other countries that fall under the same categories that are not given that privilege.

LCPD — Any LCPD officer or patrol car using turn signals to change lanes or at intersections, location and time would be helpful.

MOVEMENT — Black lives matter. But apparently only when they are ended by white people. Why don't these protesters ever rally over the thousands of black lives ended by black people every year? Or better yet, why not protest the killing of innocent children caught in the crossfire? Small gatherings occur, but never on the scale of the outrage shown by this recent cause. The hypocrisy is appalling.

GUN CONTROL — Interesting attempt to try and tie the Second Amendment to slavery. If one wants to look at vestiges of slavery, then one needs to look at the Democratic Party. It was the Republican Party that freed the slaves from their Democratic Party owners.

GUN CONTROL — To all of those who say the Second Amendment is no longer necessary: You forget that Stalin, Mussolini and Hitler all started with outlawing private citizen ownership of firearms.

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